Hospitals

Basel, Switzerland
Competition 1998, project 1998-1999, realization 1999-2002

• Clinic for neurorehabilitation and paraplegiologic care
• A place where people live for up to 18 months
• 92 beds (single and double occupancy): 5 inpatient wards (84 beds), 1 monitoring unit
(8 beds, intensive care)
• Site Area: 24,000 sqm / 258,335 sqft
• Building Footprint: 9,500 sqm / 102,258 sqft
• Gross Floor Area (GFA): 22,890 sqm / 246,387 sqft
• 2 floors with roof extension

Zurich, Switzerland
Competition 2011-2012, project 2014–2024

Acute Hospital
•Functional Areas: ∼48 Rooms: ∼2,300, of which 1,500 are for medical use
•Spatial Program: ∼15,000 sqm (Examination & Treatment), ∼9,000 sqm (Care), ∼1,200 sqm (Administration), ∼7,600 sqm (Infrastructure), ∼1,900 sqm (Restaurant and Reception), 4,800 sqm (Underground Parking)
•Beds: 200 (Total), 51 (IPS/Neonatology), 114 (Bedwards)
•Operating Rooms: 6
•Corridor Length: ∼5.5 km combined
•Car Parking: 341
•Bicycle Parking: 220
•Sustainability: SGNI Platin (Swiss Sustainable Building Council)

Building for Research & Teaching
•Laboratories: ∼2,300 sqm (Diagnostic), ∼6,300 sqm (Research)
•Teaching: 1 lecture theatre (320 seats), 2 seminar rooms (100 seats), agora as an interconnectable event venue (670-1,200 seats)
•Study & Offices: ∼80 workstations, ∼200 temporary workstations
•Bistro: ∼70 seats open to the neighbourhood
•Bicycle Parking: 130
•Sustainability: SGNI Platin (Swiss Sustainable Building Council)

Hillerød, Denmark
Competition 2013-2014, project 2014 – planned completion 2024

Acute Hospital
• 570 single bed rooms: 456 in bedwards, 90 in emergency, 24 in ICU
• 4500 rooms in functional program
• 20 medical departments
• Workplace for 4,000 staff
• Service capacity for 12,000 people per day (patients, visitors and staff)
• Serves a population of 310,000 people
• One of 16 hospital projects in Denmark in the coming years
• The only new building among six projects located in the Capital Region
• Combines three existing hospitals in Hillerød, Helsingør and Frederikssund
• Gross Floor Area (GFA): 118,000 sqm / 1,270,140 sqft

Basel, Switzerland
Competition 2018, project 2019 –

University Hospital
• Outpatient tumor center, laboratories and outpatient nephrology
• Complex brief on a compact inner-city site with existing underground parking structures and landmarked neighborhood surroundings
• 3-part composition: an elongated 3- and 4- story base, a 12-story cube and a 1-story, kidney-shaped pavilion
• The cube is a flexible building with an efficient floorplan
• The pavilion houses nephrology and the dialysis station
• Site Area: 5,760 sqm / 62,000 sqft
• Gross Floor Area (GFA): 50,000 sqm / 538,200 sqft
• Net Floor Area: 26,800 sqm / 288,500 sqft
• Building Footprint: 5,100 sqm / 54,900 sqft
• Height: 68 m / 223 ft

Parnassus Heights, San Francisco, California, USA
Project 2020-

• Leading academic medical center with world-renowned research that provides a fertile training ground for clinicians and scientists.
• Care in neurosurgery, neurology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, diabetes, cancer and nephrology is considered among the best in the U.S. (For more than the last 20 years, UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the top 10 hospitals nationwide by U.S. News & World Report)
• 300 Single Patient rooms (Intensive Care and Acute Care)
• 680 beds including Moffitt and Long Hospitals
• Gross Floor Area (GFA): 900,000 sqft / 83,600 sqm
• Height: 294 ft / 89 m
• 15 floors above ground, 1 floor below ground

Irina Davidovici: H: Hospital-as-City. The Healthcare Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron.
In: Adam Jasper (Ed.). gta papers. Social Distance. Vol. No. 5, Zurich, gta, ETH Zurich, 2021. pp. 118-131.